Dan Clark Audio
Noire X Closed-Back Headphones
$999.99 USDFeatures
More rigid than AEON 2 driver for minimal distortion across a wide frequency range
Tuned to perform with AMTS baffle and new ear pads for smooth, articulate highs
Patented Acoustic Metamaterial Tuning System (AMTS) helps eliminate standing waves
Precisely designed baffle widens soundstage and smooths out high-frequency inconsistencies
Features a complex series of waveguides, diffusion controls, and Helmholtz resonators
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Experience an expansive soundstage, silky midrange, and exceptionally detailed sound quality with the Dan Clark Noire X Closed-Back Headphones, Dan Clark Audio's newest midrange headphones. Expanding on the success of the iconic AEON 2 NOIRE Headphones, the Noire X features an entirely new design with an improved driver, new ear pads, a self-adjusting headband, and Gorilla Glass 3-clad cups. All this combined with the all-black aesthetic of the Noire X makes it a pair of audiophile-grade headphones worth owning.
The Dan Clark Audio Noire X Headphones retain the company's signature styling with several sonic improvements for a refined listening experience. Listeners will enjoy the punchy bass, silky midrange, vibrantly smooth highs, and layers of detail of the Noire X for hours of listening pleasure. Never fatiguing, the Noire X will have you tapping your toes and revisiting your entire music library, enjoying your favorite songs like never before.
Acoustic Performance, Improved Comfort, and a Breakthrough Price!
NOIRE X™ updates our iconic AEON 2 NOIRE by integrating DCA’s state-of-the-art Acoustic Metamaterial Tuning System™ (AMTS™) with an improved driver, all carefully wrapped in a gorgeous ergonomically enhanced design. NOIRE X’s dramatic black-on-black aesthetic, improved ear pads, self-adjusting headband, and Gorilla Glass 3-clad cups sumptuously hint at the numerous exciting upgrades within, all designed to maximize your listening pleasure. With NOIRE X, DCA sets a new standard in midrange headphone performance, comfort, and value!
Better Technology Means Better Sound
NOIRE X is designed around an updated and improved AEON audio driver. The new driver is significantly more rigid than its predecessor, with superior unit-to-unit consistency, reduced distortion, improved reliability, and smoothed frequency response.
Extensive R&D investments were made to optimize other aspects of NOIRE X’s planar driver. New manufacturing processes combined with highly optimized V-Planar knurling deliver a remarkably smooth frequency response with low distortion throughout the listening range, achieving levels of detail heretofore found primarily in our top-of-the-line headphones.
Leveraging our state-of-the-art Audio Precision 555B and B&K 5128 measurement system, we’ve carefully integrated NOIRE X’s new driver with our patent-pending AMTS and redesigned ear pads to create an experience we’re sure you’ll never forget.
Self-Tensioning Headband & Upgraded Ear Pads
The self-tensioning headband featured on the NOIRE X reduces listening fatigue by distributing pressure evenly across your head for a balanced, barely-there fit.
The uniform pressure distribution helps prevent hot spots and pressure points, making the NOIRE X ideal for long hours of immersive listening, free from adjustments or strain.
The NOIRE X also includes all-new ear pads to ensure an exceptionally comfortable experience. Using Alcantara synthetic suede on the contact surface reduces heat and moisture buildup, ensuring cool comfort during extended listening sessions, even in warmer or more humid environments.
In addition, the NOIRE X Ear Pads are designed to reduce “foam rolling,” so the pads will have a longer usable life, and more consistent fit and operation. NOIRE X Ear Pads are backward compatible with our AEON 2 NOIRE, AEON RT Closed, and AEON 2 Closed headphones.
Gorilla Glass
The NOIRE X is a stunning yet understated headphone, from the stitched headband to the all-new Gorilla Glass 3 finish on the cups. Gorilla Glass 3 is a thin sheet of alkali-aluminosilicate that makes the glass stiffer and more scratch and break-resistant than conventional glass formulations.
NOIRE X’s striking minimalist aesthetic is completed with the tone-on-tone understated NOIRE X logo.
Acoustic Metamaterial Tuning System
Perhaps the most important feature of NOIRE X is the addition of DCA’s critically-acclaimed AMTS tuning system, previously found only in our top-of-the-line Stealth, Expanse, E3 and Corina headphones. Truly a revolution in acoustic engineering, AMTS uses advanced metamaterial design concepts to shape system frequency response while simultaneously eliminating highfrequency standing waves, which are responsible for the synthetic-sounding high frequencies found in all too many headphones. By eliminating these standing waves, NOIRE X with AMTS delivers remarkably balanced, nuanced, and airy treble free of the fatiguing artifacts that diminish your listening experience.
So You Ask: How Does NOIRE X Sound!
We’ve gone all-in with NOIRE X to deliver the most exciting possible sonic experience, regardless of price. As is our custom, we never de-feature a headphone at lower price points, instead we try to take the technology, comfort and performance of our flagship headphones and cost-reduce them to realize superior performance at lower prices. Combining our nocompromise audio performance ethic with an exciting new look and great ergonomics establishes NOIRE X among the greatest value/performance ratio headphones in the market. Equally satisfying with all genres of music, NOIRE X’s expansive soundstage, punchy bass, silky midrange, vibrantly smooth highs, and layers of detail will keep you engaged with your favorite music for days on end. Never fatiguing, NOIRE X will have you revisiting your entire music library to experience your music like never before.
Specifications
- Model
- Noire X
- Driver
- Planar Magnetic
- Sensitivity
- -94dB/mW
- Impedance
- 16Ω
- Distortion
- < 0.1% (100Hz-8KHz)
- Weight
- 385g